Report on the World Congress

OFFICIAL MINUTES

By Rose and Ray O Light
World Congress elected Recording Secretaries

FIRST DAY: SEPTEMBER 21

1. MORNING SESSION
(Chaired by Harpal Brar, member of the Organizing Committee for International
Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, member of the Advisory
Board of Northstar Compass (NSC) and Editor of "Lalkar" newspaper
(England).

*Harpal Brar called the meeting to order at
approximately 8.50am on behalf of the Organizing Committee. He pointed out that
the basic preparatory work for this World Congress was done by comrades from
Canada and USA, led by Michael Lucas ands Helen Lucas and Ray Stevenson.

*Jef Bossuyt of the Workers Party of Belgium said that he
had a resolution in defense of political prisoners in the former Soviet Union. Ray
O Light of the NSC Editorial Board and the Organizing Committee raised the
importance of dealing with the changes in the international situation following
the September 11th events. Mate Zalka of the Communist Party
of Spain (reconstituted) said that he had an appeal on behalf of the imprisoned
Spanish comrades and a resolution in support of the hunger strike of the Turkish
prisoners. VictorBourenkov, member in exile of the Russian
Communist Workers Party and member of the New Communist Party of Britain - Wales
Section, said that he has proposed a resolution on the role of youth and on the
role of veterans of World War II in the former Soviet Union. All these issues
were referred to the incoming Resolutions Committee.

Michael Lucas, Chairman of the
International Council, addressing the World Congress

*Congress Report by Michael Lucas, Chairman of the
Organizing Committee. (A copy of the Report, including Russia, French and
Spanish translation, was in the portfolios of the delegates).

Michael Lucas stated: "We are appealing to all of you
who call yourself friends of Soviet people, Communists, friends and adherents of
Socialism, who profess and cherish the memory of once glorious Soviet Union…we
have a duty to render every assistance to our Soviet comrades. We have a sacred
duty to promote the cause of our Soviet comrades… a cause which is our
own!"…

"We have always stated in Northstar Compass, and in our
statements that we are not and we do not pretend to be a political party, a
Communist party. But we have also stated and will always state that we are
proceeding along the glorious road that our Grandparents started in 1918 when
they set up in many countries of the world the "Hands Off Russia"
Committees in order to help the young Soviet state under attack by foreign
interventionist forces…"

"We are here to arrive at a United Front through
discussions and to make a commitment to carry out the decisions that shall be
made."

"US imperialism has now undertaken in the world what
Fascism was not able to achieve during the Second World War! It has managed to
dismantle the Soviet Union and other Eastern European peoples democracies! It
has managed to ensnare countries into NATO right to the borders of the Soviet
Union. Through internal traitors in these countries, it has managed to control
the media in most countries, their economy, culture and politics for the benefit
of its New World Order!

"This was possible because there is no longer the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics to stand up to the schemes of US imperialism,
which is pushing ahead against the wishes of humanity, to dominate the world and
to impose control over destinies of the people. This was the plan of fascist
Germany whom the USSR, practically single-handedly destroyed with tremendous
loss of life and devastation, in order not only to save the Soviet people, but
also to save humanity.

"The world needs a rebirth of the USSR and Socialism
now!

"We cannot allow a new wave of Fascism to arise and
dominate people of the word…no matter under what label it might promote
itself!"

"Our sacred duty as friends of Soviet people is to make
certain that this Congress accomplishes the task of setting up this extremely
important International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet
People.

*Discussion to the Congress Report:

Svetlana Benedikt of the Karl Marx Society of Hungary,
said that she like the report but suggested removing the wording "before
1953" on page 4. Redmond Guerrero of the NSC Advisory Board and
Migrante, commended Michael Lucas for an outstanding report and suggested a
"friendly amendment" to change the phrase "number one task
[facing humanity now" to "important task facing humanity now."
Ray O Light of the NSC Advisory Board and Organizing Committee, supported the
outstanding Congress Report, especially regarding the tasks before the Congress
this weekend and the distinction between the mass organization and the vanguard
organization. He agreed with the phrase "important task" but disagreed
that each country "has own tasks". He stated that we need a general
line for the international movement, including a general line for friendship
work. He also made a motion that the World Congress adopts this outstanding
Congress Report.

The Turkish comrades, representing the
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey (we cannot use their names in the
press for security reasons) brought greetings from Turkish revolutionaries, who
are working under extreme difficult conditions of terror, and stated that his
organization wants this Congress to be a success. He supported the adoption of
the main Congress Report but suggested that the wording of solidarity with
"Soviet People" is not correct since there is no longer a Soviet Union
but different republics, and therefore it should be changed to "solidarity
with world people". Chairman Harpal Brar ruled this suggestion out
of order as the aim of the resurrection of the USSR had already been discussed
for two years.

Michael Opperskalski, Representative of "Offen-Siv",
journal of the Communist Platform of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)
Hannover (Germany) Branch, supported the Congress Report. Dr. Professor Zbigniew
Wiktor, Communist Party of Poland "Proletariat" supported the
report. Professor Vladimir Herasymchuk, Chairman of the Ukraine-Canada
Society and member of NSC Editorial Board, stated that the concept of Soviet
People is alive and well and is not opposed to the concept of the struggle
against imperialism and declared: "I am a Soviet person!"

Frank Trampus of the Canadian Friends of Soviet People,
he thought that the report was very good and the date of 1953 should be kept
since after 1953 Socialism was being slowly dismantled in the USSR, because it
reflects the truth.

Larisa Babienko, Editor of Russian newspaper "For
USSR" and Alexei Prigarine of the RCP-CPSU, (only 2 delegates from
Russia that got visas) both supported the concept of Soviet people. During the
hot discussions that followed, Michael Lucas cautioned all to please remember:
"This is a Unity Congress!"

*There was further discussion by many delegates and a
presentation by Harpal Brar on the present state of Imperialist world
domination in which he strongly upheld Stalin and stated that only socialism can
deliver humanity from misery. He urged all delegates to return the generosity of
the Soviet Union of the past by organizing themselves into the International
Council. Delegates voted to accept the Congress Report as amended. ("Number
one task" on page 3 amended to read "a key task")

*Motion was made by Ray Stevenson that "this
Congress will continue to struggle on behalf of the Turkish people and all the
peoples of the world against imperialism in the spirit of friendship and
solidarity."Motion seconded and carried unanimously.

*Alexei Prigarine, leaderof the RCP-CPSU
suggested that Page 4 of the Congress Report be amended regarding Stalin.
Michael Lucas explained that "anti-Stalinism is Anti-Socialism" and
pointed out that imperialism and enemies of socialism dwell on anti-Stalinism
because he represented and represents the crux of Socialism, but accepted the
amendment to cut out from his Congress report the phrase "before 1953"
in the interest of Congress unity. Vote on the amendment was carried
unanimously.

*Raffle of an oil painting, depicting the marshlands of
Canada, donated by Michael Lucas was won by Carmen GomezTrujillo,
delegate from the Communist Party of Mexico.

*Election of the Recording Secretary. Motion made and
seconded to elect Rose of Ray OLight as Secretary. Ray O Light
will act as Secretary when Rose will be chairperson. Motion carried.

*Election of Chairpersons: Motion made sand seconded to elect
Harpal Brar of England, Will Lambert of Canada (who was not able
to be present); Ray O Light of USA, Ray Berbling from the
Australian–Soviet Friendship Society, Magalios Christos, Secretary of
International Relations for A/Synechia, Greece. Rose O Light was added
after the question of women representation was raised. Motion carried.

*Report by Ludo Martens, from the Belgian Workers
Party, ("Another View of Stalin") was read by Jef Bossuyt. Written
report and translations into Spanish, Russian and French were provided.
Discussion the report followed.

*Motion made by Ray Stevenson that this World Congress
establish and International Commission, including representatives from former
Soviet Union, taking into account the harm done to the working class of all the
world through anti-Stalinism and develop means to counter in the name of
solidarity, friendship and anti-imperialist struggles. Motion was discussed at
length but it was not acted upon. It was clear from the discussion that those
who have led this friendship work have been strong supporters of Stalin. But
this is not appropriate for this friendship society to undertake.

II. AFTERNOON SESSION
(Chaired by Michael Opperskalski, Representative of "Offen-Siv,"
journal of the Communist Platform of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)
Hannover (Germany) Branch

* The Congress Registration Fees were collected by
Helen Lucas the Financial Secretary of the Organizing Committee, NSC and CFSP.

* Greetings were read from Oleg Shenin, Chairman of
the Union of Communist Parties-CPSU.

*Greetings were read from Communist Party Bolsheviks
Ukraine

*Greetings were read by Viktor Bourenkov from the New
Communist Party of Britain.

*A Universal Appeal for International Friendship,
Solidarity with the peoples of the Dismantled Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics and against "Globalized" Corporate War, Exploitation and
Corporate Created Disunity of all People" – presented by Ray Stevenson.
(This written draft was in all of delegates’ portfolios.) Document discussed
and referred back to Ray Stevenson for minor changes.

-Savio Dominico – First Secretary of the Communist
Party of Italy – Marxist-Leninist.

-Larisa Babienko – Editor of Russian newspaper
"For USSR," Moscow.

*Representatives of Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of
Turkey complained that many speakers have not addressed the issues of the
Congress. They questioned again the concept of using "Soviet People"
and suggested again that this be replaced with "Friendship and Solidarity
with Soviet Union and Soviet People before the 20th Congress."
After various speakers from the delegates, it was decided to give them extra
time to state their point of view again.

*Ray O Light challenged the Soviet comrades to take up
the project as reported and urged in the Congress Report of forming a United
Front to support the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with
Soviet People. Chairman Rafael Martinez supported this challenge to the
comrades from the Soviet Union (total of 3 delegates while 21 other Soviets
delegates that registered did not get their Canadian visa)

IV. SECOND MORNING SESSION
(Chaired by Ray O Light, Editorial Board of NSC, member of the Organizing
Committee)

-Michael Opperskalski presented "Some Theses on
the so-called "New World Order" (The written report was in the
delegates’ portfolios).

-Felipe Delbarrio read a Statement on behalf of the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines. (Written statement was in
delegates’ portfolios)

-Redmond Guerrero – member of the CFSP and NSC and
Migrate International, made a presentation "On Broadening Our Work."
(Written report was in each delegates’ portfolio). After a brief discussion of
the delegates present, in which both the young and elder delegates took part,
the gist of the report was unanimously adopted.

-Mate Zalka, CPS (reconstituted) stated that the links
between Spain and the former USSR go way beyond friendship and solidarity and
pledged to work with other organizations in Spain to put up a Spanish version of
Northstar Compass.

-Aubrey Bowman, of the Workers Association of Britain
gave a rousing speech which had delegates applauding.

-Flo Giblett – member of the Organizing Committee
and the Stalin Society of Great Britain gave a report on the work they are doing
and an analysis of the struggles we are involved in.

*Announcement that the work of the Congress Resolutions
Committee and the Nominations Committee will begin in the upstairs offices at
7pm.

*Ending the session was a toast to the delegates by Rafael
Martinez of Germany.

V. AFTERNOON SESSION
(Chaired by Ray O Light)

*PROPOSED STATUTES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL
(Presented by Professor Dr. ZbigniewWiktor of the Communist
Party of Poland "Proletariat")

-Jef Bossuyt said that he had been waiting for three
years for this and he fully supports the document as it is. He stressed that we
all need to move from words to deeds.

-Alexei Prigarine of Russia proposed a number of changes
which the chairman led the discussion point by point:

Prigarine wanted to delete "all Patriots and Fighters
for the Resurrection of the USSR" from the end of the first paragraph of
the proposed Statutes to "Soviet People".

Congress voted overwhelmingly to keep the wording as it is.
His other proposals were also defeated while some suggestions were accepted.

-Dr. Zbigniew Wiktor mentioned that it is at the
moment not reasonable in Poland to form a Polish-Soviet Friendship Society,
since the Polish government would reject this move.

-Turkish comrades asked again about what will the name
of the organization be after we elect the International Council…because they
will not participate as delegates if the name is not changed to "Soviet
people as existed in USSR prior to 1953. The chairman pointed out that this
decision on the names was already made yesterday and voted upon. The Turkish
delegates then placed themselves as "observers" instead of delegates.

-Mate Zalka presented a list of nine proposals that
were submitted before the Congress. They are all in the delegate’ portfolios.
Out of nine proposals, seven were accepted while two were rejected by the
delegates.

-Michael Lucas stated again that all of the suggestions
that were sent in before the Congress were taken into account when drafting the
Statutes.

-Brazilian delegates pointed out that point 3 under
Participation in the International Council" be eliminated. Suggestion was
accepted.

-Frank Trampus CFSP, NSC moved a motion to adopt the
Statutes. The motion was enthusiastically seconded by numerous delegates. Motion
carried overwhelmingly.

*WHERE SHOULD THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL BE SITUATED?

-Harpal Brar, member of the Organizing Committee
opened up the discussion. After discussion, it was decided that the location of
the Council be located in Toronto, Canada, at least for the next two years.

*WHAT SHOULD BE THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL?

-Ray O Light, member of Organizing Committee presented
this report, which was in the delegates’ portfolios. Harpal Brar, the chairman
of the session commented about the presentation, which was emotional by Ray O
Light and asked the Congress "What is your pleasure?"

-Motion was made that the official organ be Northstar
Compass, that the headquarters of this publication be in Toronto, Canada and
that Michael Lucas remain as its Chief Editor. Motion was passed
overwhelmingly with one vote opposed.

Many delegates expressed support for the publication. Rafael
Martinez of Germany volunteered to work with George Gruenthal and
help also in translation work. MateZalka suggested that NSC
should contain a cultural section. Viktor Bourenkov thanked the Editorial
Board for their hard work in promoting the restoration of the USSR and socialism
and asked that more attention be paid to the workers struggles in firmer Soviet
Union.

*Greetings were read from the Marxist Workers Communist
Party of Australia; the Communist Party of Peru (RedFatherland);
from the Iraqi CommunistParty the greetings was presented by Hazzim
Yousif, member of US Friends of Soviet People.

*NORTHSTAR COMPASS WEB SITE

George Gruenthal, member of NSC Board, USFSP, of
Organizing Committee and in charge of Northstar Compass Web Site presented a
report, which each delegate had in their portfolio. He mentioned the importance
of maintaining and expanding this Web Site of NSC, since over years there were
thousands of "bites" from all over the world…thus NSC gets the
message across the world. Viktor Bourenkov from Russia-Wales thanked
George Gruenthal for maintaining the site and he is willing to help enlarge the
site. The chairman asked all delegates, upon returning back to promote this web
site of NSC…

*WHAT SHOULD BE THE FIRST TASK UNDERTAKEN BY THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL?

This written report was followed by all delegates on their
own copy and was presented by Michael Lucas. The main suggestion was that
the Soviet parties, organizations and publications that signed the Call, and the
Soviet delegates that are at this Congress, upon their return should try to
involved the masses in setting up a Union of Soviet Friendship Society with
Foreign Countries, which will we the counterpart of the International Council.

After the report was made and discussion took place, there
was a motion by Jerry Morse of Canada and seconded by Aubrey Bowman
of England, the report was accepted with one small correction.

The change was to add the words "where possible" in
the first point of the report so that it would read:

"In each country, represented here at this Congress,
there must be set up a Friendship Society with Soviet People where possible,
which must be a united front organization devoted to the aims that we all agreed
upon at this World Congress. This organization should involve all strata of the
population that sees the need for this friendship, not only fir Soviet people,
but also in their struggles against imperialism and exploitation in their own
countries."

*Session ended with toasts to the Congress led by Ray O
Light.

THIRD DAY: SEPTEMBER 23

VI. MORNING SESSION
(Chaired by Rose of Ray O Light Group)

*Michael Opperskalski announced the death of Karl Eduard
Van Schnitzler, founder of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, who, after the
GDR was liquidated, stood up against the German Bourgeois reaction in defense of
the revolutionary heritage of GDR. Moment of silence was observed.

*Professor Vladimir Herasymchuk read his poem in Russian,
dedicated to mother of Michael Lucas who passed away, titled "Shooting
Star". Ray Stevenson then presented a gift CD of Paul Robeson’s
Peace Arch Concert to Professor Herasymchuk and told the story of Paul Roberson
and the worldwide campaign to return his passport to travel and allow the world
to hear his music.

*Motion made by Giovanni Viera of the Instituto
Brasilio de Cultura Socialista, which has consistently contributed to the work
of building for World Congress:

"We would like to pay tribute to the young 23 year
old Italian political activist, Carlo Giuliani, brutally murdered while
protesting the 8-Group Summit that was held in Genoa, Italy in July of 2001.
Carlo Giuliani has become the symbol of the anti-globalization movement around
the world. His death has not been in vain." Motion adopted.

*Michael Lucas reported that we have received 73
greetings to this World Congress. He then read greetings from:

Ana Maria Gelabert, political prisoner in Texas, USA jail;
Dr. Angelo D-Angelo of the US Friends of Soviet People; Doug Townsend of Canada;
Communist Party of Romania which invites a delegation from this Congress to
their Bucharest meeting and from the Workers Communist Party of Denmark which
decided to join the International Council.

*Rafael Martinez gave a report on behalf of "Zashchita"
(Defense) Trade Union of Russia, which represents perhaps 20,000 workers
throughout Russia where there are 30-50 million factory workers who are
underpaid, overworked and in wage arrears He reported that since 1980, there had
been powerful strikes of millions of workers protesting not payment on time of
wages. He reported further that in the early 1990’s, there was an
anti-communist hysteria among the Soviet working class in response to the
hardships of the 1980’s, resulting in a drop of life expectancy, etc. More
recently, rank and file workers have shown the ability to unite, despite some
communist party’s sectarianism.

*SPECIAL MOTION by Ray Stevenson.

"This World Congress, representing 17 countries, extends
to the working class of the Soviet People our heartfelt and undying solidarity
and friendship. We will extend whatever and all of the fraternal, moral and
material assistance we can bring to you and that meets whatever demands you may
place before us in various countries and territories. We have a world to win. We
know that your united and militant activity is the key to resurrecting socialism
in your land and the word!" Passed unanimously.

Chairman Ray O Light presented the names of proposed
candidates for the Executive Committee of the International Council:

Chairman

Michael Lucas

Canada

Vice chairman

Pedro Castilho

Brazil

Vice chairman

Harpal Brar

England

Secretary

George Gruenthal

USA

Financial Coordinator

Helen Lucas

Canada

Associate

Ray Stevenson

Canada

Editors:

Ray O Light

USA

Ludo Martens

Belgium

Members/

Dr. A. Paquin

Canada

Controllers:

Zbigniew Wiktor

Poland

Mate Zalka

Spain

S. Benedikt

Hungary

Felipe Delbarrio

Canada

Representative

Australia

This proposal was accepted by the Nominations Committee and
since there were no other nominations, the Nominating Committee asked for a
vote.

Delegates accepted the proposals and voted unanimously for
the new Executive Committee of the International Council.

Report by the Nominations Committee for the Editorial
Board of Northstar Compass journal was presented by the chairman – Ray O
Light.

Chief Editor

Michael Lucas

Canada

Associate Editors:

Ray Stevenson

Canada

Ray O Light

USA

Ludo Martens

Belgium

Subscriptions

Dr. A. Paquin

Canada

Financial Secretary

Helen Lucas

Canada

Promotions

Redmond Guerrero

Canada

Columnists:

Harpal Brar

Britain

VladimirHerasymchuk

Ukraine

Translators:

Viktor Bourenkov

Britain

Rafael Martinez

Germany

Michael Opperskalski of Germany declined his nomination.
Several nominations were made from the floor including from Russia. Michael
Lucas made a motion that was seconded by Ray O Light that in the
interest of development of unity, no nominations for the Editorial Board from
the former Soviet Union be accepted at this time. Alexei Prigarine
withdrew his nomination with respect for the opinion expressed by Michael Lucas.

Motion was carried. Delegates voted to elect the nominated
slate of candidates as amended.

VII. AFTERNOON SESSION
(Chaired by Harpal Brar of England)

-Ray O Light pointed out that in the Toronto newspaper
there was a story in the Globe & Mail that projected a Big Lie that the
"original model for all modern terrorists and for Osama Bin Laden in
particular was Vladimir Lenin, conscience of the Russian revolution."
Canadian friends should give a written response to this.

-Magalios Christos from Greece expressed concern on
behalf of A/synechia for the way the Turkish comrades were treated at this
Congress.

-Turkish comrades thanked those that organized this
Congress. They lamented that their suggestion was not accepted. Their position
is that after the20th Congress of the CPSU the Soviet Union was not a socialist
country and this is a question of principle for them. They would stay as
observers, but they want to maintain contact with the International Council.

-George Gruenthal stated that he felt that the words
"before 1953" were irrelevant.

-Alexei Prigarine that he supports the Turkish comrades
fight against the Turkish government, but that they should not be upset. Ray O
Light objected on the point of order that Alexei Prigarine is not following the
time allotted to each speaker. Chairman Harpal Brar allowed Prigarine to
continue but gave him a time limit.

-Mate Zalka stated that he represents a party, not a
newspaper and as Bolsheviks we do make mistakes and are willing to be
self-critical. We object being called Trotskyite because our party had fought
long and hard against Trotskyism and we support Stalin in Spain for 30 years.
The Communist Party of Spain takes a dialectical approach to the Soviet Union
and that 1956 began the process of disintegration.

*REPORT OF THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
(Presented by Jef Bossuyt, Chairman)

A summary of the resolutions and their disposition follows:

*Resolution 1: "On the Terrorist Attacks and the Preparation of
War"

The representative of Lalkar spoke in opposition to
paragraph 1 of the proposed resolution, claiming that the attack on the World
Trade Centre was not a "terroristic act" but an extension of the
national liberation struggle. He suggested that we delete this paragraph and
proposed an alternative. Jeff Bossuyt spoke in support of the paragraph
and quoted 3 texts that had taken a position of condemning the state terrorism
of US imperialism and other imperialists while also opposing the terrorist
attack in New York City on September 11th, from the Russian Communist
Workers Party, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the government of
Cuba. Flo Giblett said she felt it was just that the Pentagon, center or
world-wide imperialist aggression had been bombed and pointed out that the World
Trade Center was also the center for planning aggression against the people of
the world. She asked, about feeling sorry for the 4 million people who die every
year of starvation. George Gruenthal pointed out that nobody knows who
carried out these actions. No group in the world claimed responsibility. He
suggested using "attack" instead of "terror bombing" and
deleting "Washington" and the entire second sentence. He said that in
New York, people feel "we are attacked" and therefore it has to be
condemned in order to reach people there.

-Amendment proposed by the representative of Lalkar to
replace the first paragraph failed. Vote was 13 for, 15 against, with 9
abstentions.

-Rose from Ray O Light Group proposed "US" be
changed to "US imperialism" in paragraph 3. Proposal accepted. Also,
adding "including reactionary Arab regimes" on line 2ter
"currents". Amendment carried with 21for, 6 against and 2 abstentions.
There was also agreement that "state of Israel" would be added after
"Zionist aggression" in paragraph 7.

-Resolution 2: "Free Political Prisoners – Fighters
for Socialism".

Rafael Martinez suggested that we leave out Slobodan
Milosevic's name out. Proposal was then supported by Jef Bossuyt. Dr,Zbigniew Wiktor said that if we removed this, we would need another
resolution. 15 voted to support, 17 opposed. Motion failed. George Gruenthal
proposed adding 2 more paragraphs from the proposals of Mate Zalka in
support of Turkish political prisoners and Spanish political prisoners. Proposal
carried.

-Resolution 3: "Agitational Work amongstthe
Youth" and "Resolution on the Soviet Wear Veterans of World War
II". Carried unanimously.

-Resolution 6: "Solidarity with Colombian people against
the prepared aggression". Rafael Martinez made a proposal to take out
reference to FARC and the Communist Party of Colombia. Proposal failed 10 for,
11 against. Motion made and seconded and carried.

-Resolution 8: "Solidarity with political prisoners in
Turkey". Adopted.

-Jef Bossuyt was thanked by the chairman for a very
difficult and often hot tempered exchanges during this very important session on
the resolutions.

-Ray Stevenson stated that we are facing the problems and
also the achievements that go along with the growth, and wished everyone well in
the fight for solidarity with the Soviet people. He proposed that the document
Universal Appeal be referred to the incoming Executive Committee of the
International Council to rework it for united action. Motion was made and
seconded and accepted by acclamation.

-Michael Lucas introduced Lloyd Redstone of
Canada from CFSP and NSC as one of the backbones of the organization. Lloyd
thanked the delegates for their participation and pointed out that most of the
funds has been provided by Mike and Helen Lucas and the great Society of
Carpatho-Russian Canadians. He called for contributions of money and articles
for NSC. He also wished that he shall see socialism in his lifetime (he’s 74
years old) and urged all of us to "get going!"

-Magalios Christos said that we was very touched and
would never forget the hospitality received. He appreciated the opportunity to
speak in the name of A/Synechia of Greece and encouraged us to always remember
the millions of comrades who gave their lives in the fight and we cannot let
them down. No matter what our differences are, he urged that we all unite in the
fight against the enemy of mankind – the Imperialist New World Order.

-Alexei Prigarine expressed support for the successful
World Congress. He thanked Michael Lucas, Ray Stevenson and Helen Lucas and the
Organizing Committee of the World Congress. He stated that the aim for victory
of socialism in the Soviet Union and in the whole world shall be victorious.

-Harpal Brar said that he has expected this World
Congress to be boring, but instead, found it a vibrant body of people who made
good arguments in the spirit of comradeship. He stated that imperialism attacked
Stalin in an effort to destroy the internationalist working class’ confidence
in itself to struggle for power. He also said that the Soviet Union lives in the
minds of hundreds of millions of people around the world and urged that we rides
above petty differences and work for internationalism.

-Michael Lucas as the new Chairman of the
International Council and Chief Editor of Northstar Compass, commented that we
have given him and the rest of the newly elected leadership a big responsibility
as a 75 year young man, following in the footsteps of his revolutionary family,
some who died in the Spanish Civil War.

He urged all the delegates not to be only paper members of
the newly formed International Council, but to fulfill our responsibilities to
ourselves and to the people in our own countries by contributing to the work
that lies ahead. He urged all delegates to respond when he writes, and warned
all that if we do not actively participate, the new committees would not be able
to publish Northstar Compass journal as it had been published in the past. He
urged comrades from the former Soviet Union to set aside their differences, not
just for themselves, but also for all of humanity. Finally, he wished all the
delegates speedy and safe return home, good health and raised the toast to the
successful conclusion of the World Congress.

The World Congress concluded with the playing of the Soviet
National Anthem and the singing of the International.